Thursday, 24 October 2013

After the editor of All Out Cricket magazine chanced across my piece 'What can The Big Lebowski teach us about cricket?', he asked whether I could provide a series on that theme – essentially, delving into well known movies and finding tenuous cricket connections. Of course, being poor and faintly desperate, I answered in the affirmative. Cue not a very cost-effective trawl through several cult movies listening out for mentions of "backward point" or "leg glance" or somesuch. Anyway, I managed to shoehorn The Matrix into this preposterous schema and have since submitted (a better) one on This Is England. Have a read.

Saturday, 5 October 2013

When I were a lad I played again' Sobers, Lindwall, Holding, Fred 'The Demon' Spofforth, Patrick Patterson, Frank Tyson, Vintcent van Der Bijl and Sarfraz Nawaz... And that were just one game. By 'eck, it were played hard then. I wrote a piece for All Out Cricket, asking: Where have all the overseas pro's gone?Tweet